Also: Facebook Abandons Aquila, Lindbergh Innovation Forum, Student-Designed Drones, Autonomous Aerial Vehicles Competition

Comcast will partner with the Aerial Sports League to host The Xfinity California Drone Speed Challenge – Level 2.

Starting this month, drone pilot teams will compete in a multi-week, eSports-style “virtual qualifier” series through the VelociDrone racing simulator while winning teams will move on to compete, live, on July 19 for the  championship at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, CA. A $25,000 prize purse is up for grabs as the fastest drone teams compete in California’s biggest drone racing event. Comcast will also contribute another $25,000 to a local non-profit organization in the name of the winning team. If there is a more dramatic demonstration of the many potential benefits posed by unmanned aircraft, the surveillance of volcanic activity in Hawaii would have to be near the top of any list. The video and data collected by unmanned platforms have been used to inform the researchers, educate the public and save lives! Just a few days ago, a UAS mission filmed details of the dramatic changes occurring within a crater at Kilauea's summit since explosive eruptions began in mid-May. In less than a month, nearly 30 people from the Aero-News Network, as well as our partners from the Academy of Model Aeronautics, will be gathering at the world's greatest Aviation event. As we have for over 20 years, ANN and our partners, will be presenting hundreds of stories, in  written, photographic, audio, and/or video formats, to interested aviators around the globe. Over the past few years, more and more news is being made by the Unmanned Aviation segment... Both personal, as well as professional, and Oshkosh has embraced the revolution, aggressively. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of the AMA Drone Report!!!

AMA Drone Report 06.28.18 is chock full of info in this Weekly News Episode, Thursday, June 28th, 2018... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalist Tom Patton, this episode covers:

• Comcast, Aerial Sports League Host Biggest Drone Race In CA History 
• Drones Continue To Provide Incredible Coverage of Volcano Hazards
• ANN Plans For OSH Are AMAZING!
• Facebook Abandons Aquila Program 
• Lindbergh Innovation Forum Planned For AirVenture 2018
• Student-Designed Drones Complete Maiden Flight At NLR Facility
• ERAU Daytona Students Dominate NSF’s Autonomous Aerial Vehicles Competition

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